| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: And smokeless hearths of my people, sail, with yourself, alone.
Before your mother was born, the die of to-day was thrown
And you selected:- your husband, vainly striving, to fall
Broken between these hands:- yourself to be severed from all,
The places, the people, you love - home, kindred, and clan -
And to dwell in a desert and bear the babes of a kinless man."
NOTES TO THE SONG OF RAHERO
INTRODUCTION. - This tale, of which I have not consciously
changed a single feature, I received from tradition. It is
highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas,
the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: tops were invisible.
The stream, which had accompanied them through the gap, went straight
forward, but, instead of descending the wall of the chasm as a
waterfall, it crossed from side to side like a liquid bridge. It
then disappeared through a cleft in the cliffs on the opposite side.
To Maskull's mind, however, even more wonderful than this unnatural
phenomenon was the absence of shadows, which was more noticeable here
than on the open plain. It made the place look like a hall of
phantoms.
Corpang, without delay, led the way along the shelf to the left.
When they had walked about a mile, the gulf widened to two hundred
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: me?"
The old man rose, and taking a light walked towards the end of
the apartment, where was a door that led to the small sleeping-
room destined for his reception during the night. At the door he
turned round, and slowly repeated Varney's question ere he
answered it. "For what do I take thee, Richard Varney? Why, for
a worse devil than I have been myself. But I am in your toils,
and I must serve you till my term be out."
"Well, well," answered Varney hastily, "be stirring with grey
light. It may be we shall not need thy medicine--do nought till
I myself come down. Michael Lambourne shall guide you to the
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